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Thursday, December 31, 2015

Hey pallies, likes our Dino-wintery season is comin' to an end as we moves into the coolest of the cool celebrations of Dino-eve. Traditionally ilovedinomartin has shared one or more vid clips from our most beloved Dino's 1970 New Year's Eve ver-si-on of the Dino-show, but only on Dino-eve last yaer have we ever been able to share the entire broadcast in all all it's Dino-glory before.

Likes, likes near last year's Dino-eve as we were searchin' youtube for what might be up this Dino-eve on our humble little Dino-blog from that 1970 programme, we were likes thrilled beyond thrilled to discover that a pallie tagged "Saucio2014" had actually uploaded the whole show in a series of 6 vid clips. So, below, for our second year on the eve of 2016, is all the fun and frolic from that classic episode and will definitely definitely puts all us pallies into the swingin'est of swingin' Dino-eve-mood!

We digs each and every moment of this fabulous broadcast, but we gotta 'fess up that our most fav of fav clips is still numero five which has our most beloved Dino and his bestest of best pallie Frank, along with Miss Ruth Buzzi and the Golddiggers puttin' on a radio programme for New Years Eve.

We mostest of most digs that seg of this particular clip when Sinatra brings our Dino to the microphone introducin' Dino sayin' "...."And, now staggerin' up to the microphone, direct from the three month tour of his wine cellar, the baritone of the breweries, Mr. Blinky Tomlin"....and our Dino begins sings the ditty "The Object Of My Affections," usin' all his most marvelous movements that he is the coolest of cool at, simply drippin' with the hugest of huge hipness and the remarkable of remarkable randiness!

Likes happy Dino-eve to Dino-holics everywhere, and tremendous thanks to "Saucio2014" for bringin' so so much Dino-happiness to all us Dino-philes through sharin' this most amazin' NYE episode of the Dino-show in total! Dino-partyin', DMP

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Hey pallies, likes we interrupt all our swankest of swank sharin' of the deepest of deep devotion to our Dino on the twenty anniversary of his departure from our planet to gets the Dino-eve 2015 vib goin' here at ilovedinomartin. Not to worry dudes, we will be ringin' in the new Dino-year 2016 with just a ton of more perfectly powerful potent posts of awesome adulation of our one and only Dino from 'round the globe....and we promise not to stop sharin' 'em to we get 'em all posted here at our humble little Dino-home.

But, likes Dino-eve beckons dudes....and if ever a celebration was made for our most beloved Dino it woulda be Dino-eve! Our Dino was swinger extraordinare....especially after he broke the strings with his second wife...numbero duo, Jeanne. No longer the homebody he was portrayed to be, Dino enjoyed makin' the clubbin' scene with the youth of his day...in particular at the swingin'esqe Discotheque of them all....The Candy Store. We deeply digs all the cool candids shot of our Dino at this where it is at club.....Dino wearin' the modest of mod fashions of the day and makin' the scene with Miss Cathy Hawn who woulda becomes the third and last Mrs. Dean Martin.

Likes truly truly Dino-eve belongs to our Dino! And, as we gets the party here at ilovedinomartin off to an early start we once 'gain, as has become 'nother Dino-tradition here, we share two historical 'n hysterical poses of our Dino and Jerry as Father Time and the babe-in-arms. Likes ain't it hard to believe that these here pixs were swankly shot to celebrate the comin' of 1952....64 count-em-64 years ago!

How fun to see our most delightful Dino decked out as Father Time...lookin' so wonderfully wise with his long flowin' robe and sickle...and Mr. Lewis dressed as a new born ready to toot his horn....indeed these beau-ti-ful boys are certainly totally totally type cast! ilovedinomartin wishes all you pallies a swingin' and safe New Year's Eve and the bestest of best New Years!

Keeps checkin' in at ilovedinomartin for more of that great great Dino-action in the comin' year as well as some fabulous Dino-clips from the Dino-show bein' shared tomorrow on Dino-eve. And, likes most of all, all youse Dino-holics , keeps drinkin' deeply deeply from the Dino-fountain of complete cool! Dino-celebratin', DMP

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Hey pallies, likes let's the Dino-homagin' continue as we begin drawin' our days of Dino-winter month to close. Today we takes you to the online presence of the Los Angeles Times where contact report Miss Susan King asks the age old quire, "What was Dean Martin really drinking" in her touchin' and tender thoughts on "Remembering Dino."

Miss King speaks of her personal sadness when she "learned Christmas Day 20 years ago that Dean Martin had died of acute respiratory failure at age 78," and likes tons of Dino-holics everywhere speaks fondly of watchin' our most beloved Dino on the small screen, goin' to his big screen flicks and "totally enjoyed his songs."

Susan raises the issue of what liquid refreshment our Dino was imbibin' while performin' and notes that it was often apple juice, referrin' to it bein' 'bout his image. We are thrilled to also point out that Susan points us, through an enclosed link, to our King of Cool's obit shared by the L.A. Times...very very helpful for those of us who want to continue to grow in deeper and deeper knowledge of our one and only Dino.

ilovedinomartin thanks Miss Susan King for reachin' out with this Dino-remembrance on this 20th anniversary of our Dino's departure from our presence. To checks this out in it's original format, simply, per usual, clicks on the tag of this here Dino-message. Dino-growin', DMP

Classic Hollywood: What was Dean Martin really drinking?

By Susan King Contact Reporter

Remembering Dino

Rat Pack fans like myself were saddened when they learned Christmas Day 20 years ago that Dean Martin had died of acute respiratory failure at age 78. Though Frank Sinatra was my favorite Rat Packer, I had plenty of amore for Martin. As a kid I watched his NBC musical-variety series -- remember Ken Lane, the Golddiggers and the Dingaling Sisters? -- went to his films and totally enjoyed his songs.

A few years ago, I chatted with his daughter Deanna Martin, who is also a singer, about her dad. She noted that the whole "Dino" personality was a gimmick.

"When he started to redo his nightclub act, he started at the Sands Hotel and had some writers helping him," she said. "It was like Jack Benny who had the violin thing and made fun about being cheap. Dad was so handsome, so debonair. They just thought, 'We'll put a drink in his hand and a cigarette.' Every man wanted to be him, and every woman wanted to be with him."

The truth of the matter, she said, was her father was swigging apple juice and not liquor when he performed. "He would be home for dinner every night," Martin said. "He would come home, and he and mom would have their one cocktail at the bar. He was kind. He was so different from what everybody thought he was. There was no one who could do Dean Martin better than Dean Martin."

Here is the L.A. Times obit of Martin, which appeared in the paper on Dec. 26, 1995.

Monday, December 28, 2015

Hey pallies, likes our Danny G. was not the only one to notice Mr. Martin Chilton wondrous wise words homagin' our Dino in his recent post for the British newspaper the Telegraph,"Dean Martin: the man whose voice captured Christmas." In doin' our usual 25 pages of Dino-blog searchin' via Google Blog Search, we were led to the self-tagged blog "PAUL DAVIS ON CRIME" where Mr. Davis shares the same post by Mr. Chilton. As, Davis writes 'bout himself, he "is a writer that covers crime" and "has been a student of crime since he was a 12-year-old aspiring writer growing up in South Philadelphia."

In addition to his passion for crime, we are thrilled to note that Paul is "a huge fan of entertainer Dean Martin, whom I always think of as Dino, and during the Christmas season I listen to many of his classic Christmas songs." Likes, we are always most deeply delighted to find 'nother digger of our most beloved Dino, and we are pleasantly pleased to share his touchin' thoughts below.

Mr. Davis, also links us to a previous post on our Dino that he shared in 2009, as well as also properly points his readership in the bestest of best direction to learn mucho more 'bout the life, times, and teachin's of our Dino sayin'..."If you wish to learn more about Dean Martin you should read Nick Tosches' interesting biography of the great entertainer." Likes we express our great gratitude to Mr. Paul Davis for shairn' his pure passion for our Dino with his readership 'specially in this Dino-seasonal time of rememberin' our King of Cool. To checks Paul's prose out in it's original source, simply clicks on the tag of this here Dino-report. Dino-always, ever, and only, DMP

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2015

Dean Martin: The Man Whose Voice Captured Christmas

I'm a huge fan of entertainer Dean Martin, whom I always think of as Dino, and during the Christmas season I listen to many of his classic Christmas songs.

So I was interested in reading Martin Chilton's good piece on Dean Martin and Christmas at the British newspaper the Telegraph.

When Elvis Presley was introduced to Dean Martin's young daughter Deana, the singer leaned in and whispered: "They call me the King of Rock and Roll, but your dad is the King of Cool."

The King of Cool, who died on Christmas Day 20 years ago, had a spectacularly successful recording career. Martin had 40 Top 10 singles between 1950 and 1969 and three of them – That's Amore (1953), Memories are Made of This (1955) and Everybody Loves Somebody (1964) – were million-sellers.

There were a lot of trials and tribulations before the man born Dino Paul Crocetti on June 17, 1917, in Steubenville, Ohio, made it to the top. Martin, the son of an Italian immigrant barber, was a reluctant performer as a teenager, believing that he would make more money as a prize-fighter and cardsharp. But after a spell labouring in a steel mill, and at the urging of enthusiastic friends, he began singing at weekends in small clubs.

At 21, he was spotted performing in a bar by a jazz bandleader named Sammy Watkins, who was impressed by his lush delivery of songs. At that time, the youngster was calling himself Dino Martini (after the popular Italian opera star Nino Martini) but Watkins renamed him Dean Martin and a show business legend was born.

Sunday, December 27, 2015

Well pallies...here we are.
'Nother Dino-Winter Month is windin' down.
What times we had though, huh pals?!
What a special, yet bittersweet, anniversary too.

Man...20 years have flown by.
I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news.
Dino passed.
Ugh. Felt empty.
Like I just lost a friend I had known all my life, but hadn't seen for a long while.

Oh well. That's how it works, mi amici.
Souls come & go.
Some just leave more of an impression.
I've been PERMANENTLY scarred...in a good way...by our pal, Dean.
Never to be the same...& never regrettin'.

Dino has helped to mold me into the crazy, silly fella I am. Ha!

That's a GREAT thin', pallies!
Proud to say that Dino inspires me everyday!

Let's move forward... into the new year... with Dean in mind... always proud to be who we are, pals o mine!
Dino-holics! Haha!!

I never will forget the station where we met
You dropped your skis, a happy circumstance
No one would have guessed we had started
Started a winter romance

And all the way to Maine, on that enchanted train
The passing scenery didn't get a glance
We held hands completely, light hearted
Off to a winter romance

We danced that night, by candle light
The world was white with snow
The way we felt, we never felt
The snow could melt and go

But though the snow is gone, the romance lingers on
And those who said it didn't stand a chance
Will know when they see us together
That love's not controlled by the weather
And all of our summers, we'll have our winter romance

Though the snow is gone, the romance lingers on
And those who said it didn't stand a chance
Will know when they see us together
That love's not controlled by the weather
And all of our summers, we'll have our winter romance

Saturday, December 26, 2015

Hey pallies, likes on this day after Dino-winter-day we return with 'nother greatest of great Dino-epistle from our greatest of great Dino-proser Ed. First shared on the pages of ilovedinomartin durin' the Dino-winter-season 2013, we are thrilled to be able share it once 'gain with all youse Dino-philes 'cause it is indeed likes the most special of special Dino-wintery tributes that any only-devoted-to-Dino dude coulda ever desire. Deep from the depths of his personal devotion to our Dino comes our Brother Ed's superbly scribed Dino-reflection, "The 12 Days Of Dino."

Truly, truly there has never ever been anyone more deeply devoted to our Dino AND more in-the-Dino-know then our Dino-bro Ed. Our Ed profoundly proves this with all the amazin' Dino-facts and figures that he has assembled in his powerfully potent prosed parody of the 12 Days of Christmas.

ilovedinomartin thanks our brother in Dino, Ed, for this from-the bottom-of-his-Dino-heart trib to our most beloved Dino in this Dino-wintery season 2015. Pallie Ed has once 'gain set a new supreme standard of passionate prose in awesome amore of our man of Amore....our most beloved Dino! And, likes we hopes you also greatly grooves on this two grooviest of groovy powerfully potent poses of our Dino!!!!! Dino-always, ever, and only, DMP

Ring-a-ding, Ho-Ho, and all that other Merry Jazz, baby! The Holli-Dino-Days are upon us like Santa Clause on a snowy roof pally. Tis the season of Dino-music, Holiday movies, family, merriment, and all sounds and sites that make these times special. The year has been great, and grand finale is a doozie! The voice of the season has been declared OH-ficcialy ladies and gentlemen, and it's our Dino. "Let it Snow, let it snow, let it snow". Now I don't know a better way to finish off this year with that Dino-news!

Ah, the Holidays. During these times a pally gets to dreaming, thinking bout the memories that makes these days so special. The glow of dusk on Christmas eve, the dawn of Christmas morn. The anniversary of the Passing of our Dino, I reflect on this 19th year A.D., After Dino., to remember some of the things he's brought us.And in the spirit of the season, I've put together something little to remember our Dino this Christmas. Behind the gifts, past the tree, under the stars, Dino flows through the ether. Like the air we breathe, he is everywhere. I celebrate this Christmas with the ones I love, and listen to man who's helped all of us enjoy the holidays a little more every year.

I present you The 12 Days Of Dino…

On the 1st Day of Christmas our Dino gave to usA Golden Globe for Best TV Male Entertainer

On the 2nd Day of Christmas our Dino gave to us2 Billboard #1 songsand a Golden Globe for Best TV Male Entertainer

On the 3rd Day of Christmas our Dino gave to us3 Hollywood stars2 Billboard #1 songsand a Golden Globe for Best TV Male Entertainer

On the 4th Day of Christmas our Dino gave to us4 Emmy award nominations3 Hollywood stars2 Billboard #1 songsand a Golden Globe for Best TV Male Entertainer

On the 5th Day of Christmas our Dino gave to us5 Chapels in the moonlight4 Emmy award nominations3 Hollywood stars2 Billboard #1 songsand a Golden Globe for Best TV Male Entertainer

On the 6th Day of Christmas our Dino gave to us6 hundred songs5 Chapels in the moonlight4 Emmy award nominations3 Hollywood stars2 Billboard #1 songsand a Golden Globe for Best TV Male Entertainer

On the 7th Day of Christmas our Dino gave to usthe 7th Day of June6 hundred songs5 Chapels in the moonlight4 Emmy award nominations3 Hollywood stars2 Billboard #1 songsand a Golden Globe for Best TV Male Entertainer

On the 8th Day of Christmas our Dino gave to us8 Motion Picture Herald Awardsthe 7th Day of June6 hundred songs5 Chapels in the moonlight4 Emmy award nominations3 Hollywood stars2 Billboard #1 songsand a Golden Globe for Best TV Male Entertainer

On the 9th Day of Christmas our Dino gave to us9 Dean Martin Show seasons8 Motion Picture herald awardsthe 7th Day of June6 hundred songs5 Chapels in the moonlight4 Emmy award nominations3 Hollywood stars2 Billboard #1 songsand a Golden Globe for Best TV Male Entertainer

On the 10 day of Christmas our Dino gave to us.10 years o' Martin n Lewis9 Dean Martin Show seasons8 motion Picture Herald awardsthe 7th Day of June6 hundred songs5 Chapels in the moonlight4 Emmy award nominations3 Hollywood stars2 Billboard #1 songsand a Golden Globe for Best TV Male Entertainer

On the 11th Day of Christmas our Dino gave to us...11 years of a Dino 'roastin'10 years o' Martin n Lewis9 Dean Martin Show seasons8 Motion Picture Herald awardsthe 7th Day of June6 hundred songs5 Chapels in the moonlight4 Emmy award nominations3 Hollywood stars2 Billboard #1 songsand a Golden Globe for Best TV Male Entertainer

On the 12th day of Christmas our Dino gave to us…12 Golden records11 years of a Dino 'roastin'10 years o' Martin n Lewis9 Dean Martin Show seasons8 Motion Picture Herald awardsthe 7th Day of June6 hundred songs5 Chapels in the moonlight4 Emmy Award nominations3 Hollywood stars2 Billboard #1 songsand a Golden Globe for Best TV Male Entertainer

Dean Martin: the man whose voice captured Christmas

Dean Martin died on Christmas Day 1995

24 December 2015 • 10:34am

When Elvis Presley was introduced to Dean Martin's young daughter Deana, the singer leaned in and whispered: "They call me the King of Rock and Roll, but your dad is the King of Cool."
The King of Cool, who died on Christmas Day 20 years ago, had a spectacularly successful recording career. Martin had 40 Top 10 singles between 1950 and 1969 and three of them – That's Amore (1953), Memories are Made of This (1955) and Everybody Loves Somebody (1964) –were million-sellers.
There were a lot of trials and tribulations before the man born Dino Paul Crocetti on June 17, 1917, in Steubenville, Ohio, made it to the top. Martin, the son of an Italian immigrant barber, was a reluctant performer as a teenager, believing also that he would make more money as a prize-fighter and cardsharp. But after a spell labouring in a steel mill, and at the urging of enthusiastic friends, he began singing at weekends in small clubs.
At 21, he was spotted performing in a bar by a jazz bandleader named Sammy Watkins, who was impressed by his lush delivery of songs. At that time, the youngster was calling himself Dino Martini (after the popular Italian opera star Nino Martini) but Watkins renamed him Dean Martin and a showbusiness legend was born.

Martin imitated the smooth baritone vocals and phrasing of Bing Crosby, also emulating the cheerful casualness in the way Crosby sang his lyrics. This relaxed delivery is what makes Martin songs such as Volare and Return to Me so charming.
Despite immediate acclaim, Martin doubted his own ability. He couldn't read music and believed that the fact he had never had singing lessons showed. Jerry Lewis, his comedy partner for the act Martin and Lewis, once said: "Dean could never ever sing and do it with a full heart because he wasn’t clear about his worth. He would kid the singing and never allow it ever to get serious. He did not have self-esteem of any kind."
Martin publicly acknowledged his debt to Crosby and added self-deprecatingly: "I am no singer. I can carry a tune and I have an easy style but we crooners get by because we're fairly painless."

Dean Martin with Sammy Davis Jr and Frank SinatraCredit:Rex Features

He was under-selling himself, of course, because Martin has one of the warmest voices in popular music, something you can hear so clearly on feelgood songs such as Memories Are Made of This.
Martin also downplayed his film career – which included a Golden Globe nomination in 1959 for Who Was That Lady? – and remained a reluctant celebrity, despite becoming America's highest-paid television star in the Sixties. The Dean Martin Show was the most-watched programme in 1965 and 1966 and Martin ended up being paid $283,000 an episode, plus being given shares in NBC’s parent Company, RCA.
The show, which sometimes featured fellow Rat Pack friends Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, was overseen by Jimmy Bowen, a respected producer of country music. Martin always had a soft spot for Nashville music and his son has said that the only time his father ever put on records at home they would be those of country singer Eddy Arnold.

Under the name Dean "Tex" Martin, he also recorded songs written byJohnny Cash, Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, and he was named 'Man Of the Year' by the Country Music Association in 1966.
To the public Martin was the stylish and humorous Rat Pack man, but even to close friends his character was hard to pin down. There was talk a few years ago of Martin Scorsese making a Dean Martin biopic but the celebrated film director gave a revealing explanation about why such an interesting project never happened. "We really tried, but the story of Dean Martin is very difficult," said Scorsese. "It’s very difficult because ultimately he pulls back in life. He pulled back and seemed to be passive and that was part of what was appreciated about him from Sinatra and everybody else."

Dean Martin had three million-selling singlesCredit:Rex Features

Even so, Martin's children were left with happy memories of a father who would amuse his young children with jokes, such as his repeated trick of spreading butter all over his giants hands, as if he was buttering bread.
For the rest of us, we have the fabulous music, especially at Christmas. Martin, who was awarded a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009, had the perfect voice for festive songs. His version of Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! in 1959 is the best and most popular adaptation of a classic song about snow. It amused Martin that his hit song about snow was written in California by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne on America's hottest day of 1945.
Martin was 78, and somewhat drink addicted, when he died on December 25 1995 of acute respiratory failure, at his home in Beverly Hills. How strange that a man of festive song fame should die on Christmas Day, just as his maternal grandmother Angela had done in 1966.
Film director Peter Bogdanovich said: "That Dean Martin died on Christmas Day was the kind of black joke he might have made. It didn’t seem real to me until I heard that all the casinos on the Vegas Strip had turned off their lights for one minute to commemorate Dino’s passing. You could almost hear Dean saying, in amazement, 'One whole minute? I must have been a big shot.'"
He was a big shot. And the King of Cool.

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Hey pallies, likes it just wouldn't be the Dino-wintery season without the most powerfully pure prose from our brother in Dino, Ed of Ed's Epistle fame. So in this last post before Dino-winter-day 2015, we share a post that Ed first scribed for Dino-winter-day 2009. In his profoundly personal way, as only Ed can do it, he sensitively & solemnly shares with us how deeply the passin' of our Dino effected him, and how only a few months later, the man who introduced him to our King of Cool, his wonderful Dino-devoted father, also followed Dino beyond the grave.

It is with the purest of pure pleasure that we once 'gain share, "Ed's Epistle.....Remembering Dino This Christmas".......some of our Brother Ed's most deeply deep Dino-hearted sentiments ever. Thanks Brother Ed for helpin' to bring so so much Dino-light to our Dino-paths! Dino-always, ever, and only, DMP

Christmas is time of mixed emotions. Early childhood memories are filled with trees, lights, and gifts. Dino on the turntable and family in house. These are the days were the basis of all future life moments are compared.

Things evolve as one ages. Times of receiving are replaced with times of giving. Times of being with family are replaced with times of remembering family. We settle for good health rather than good gifts. Memories and present family we rely on to get through present day ills and worries.

Family and friends who in the past filtered out the bad and rang in the good are no longer with some of us. Time for reflection and hopes for the future will fill my holidays.

Dino slipped away from us on a Christmas morning some fourteen years ago. Exited quietly on the most tranquil morning of the year. Typical Dino to duck out when no one was looking. Not wanting the attention, the spotlight. It was Christmas morning 1995, while Dino song filled the world’s airways, and hearts with his voice, his soul left this earth. Dino going Splitsville from his own party to catch a late western, Christmas morning he left to go the big bar upstairs. He knew no one was looking, I'm sure. The Rat Pack lost it's cool. The world turned a page, started a new chapter.

When the image of Dean flashed on the screen, the family paused to watch. It's not good when a show is interrupted for a special announcement, on Christmas morning of all times. Worse when the image is the one you associate your childhood with. The smile happy, the voice song, the laugh fun, the face Dino.

Part of the collective American soul died that morning.

Part of me left that morning. Ten months later, I personally had another loss in my life. The big guy who brought Dino into my life took an exit himself. My dad died the next September. Dino I and Dino II in my eyes, limo tailights. Rough year for this pallie.

Fortunately, the spirit of Dino has grown bigger since his passing. Dino is as big as ever. His is now the rank of legend. Dino owns the Cool recipe. He copyrighted 'sigh'. He's untouchable. He lives in memory, on screen, and in voice. Frank may have done it his way, but Dino did it our way. We get it. Christmas is tonic. Some parts happy, some sad, some hopeful, some remorseful. All mixed together makes you humble. I am fortunate for what I had, and what I have. Make someone feel that this season. Create some memories, play some Dino. Today is tomorrow memories.

To all of your family and friends, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. I hope you're season are is filled with Dino, and your heart with happiness!

Hey pallies, likes today as Dino-winter-day is not far off, we share a very short vid of a Christmas greetin' from our Dino created in 1994, the year before he departed from our presence. Somebody with an ol' vid camera approached our most beloved Dino comin' out of a bar and asked him to say Merry Christmas, and our ever gracious Dino does just that!

We've shared this vid before durin' previous Dino-winter month remembrances, and we feel called to makin' this a yearly tradition here at ilovedinomartin.

We thanks the pallie who musta planned to film this short vid for givin' all us Dino-holics this most movin' memory of our King of Cool.....truly bitter sweet for sure. Dino-always, ever, and only, DMP

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Hey pallies, likes we here at ilovedinomartin are always always searchin' for more and more wonderfully wondrous ways of highly, hugely homagin' our most beloved Dino. While most of our time is spent on sharin' others deeply deep devotion of our Dino, and we gotta 'fess up we don't find the time often 'nough to offer our own purely personal passion for our one and only Dino.

But, likes on this twenty second day of Dino-winter-month as the days draweth closer and closer to the twentieth anniversary of our Dino's departure from our presence on December 25, 1990, we just need to share with all youse fellow Dino-holics our simple and hopefully special way of showin' our absolute appreciation for our King of Cool.

Likes for a ton of ages now, it has been the desire of our devoted Dino-heart to create a series of gifs sharin' an entire Dino-croon made up of a plentiful plethora of short moments...mostly five seconds in length. Our desire in doin' so is to accent each and every nuance of our great great man's beautifully bountiful body movements. From every fascinatin' facial expression includin' our Dino's extremely expressive eyes (likes who can ever resist his glorious glance?!?!?!?!?!)....to the wonderful ways he gracefully gestures with his ever present Kent cigarette in hand, we hopes a series of gifs will capture in the coolest of cool ways possible.

And pallies, like it was a beau-ti-ful breeze of a decision on which Dino-croonin' vid that woulda be the swank subject of extra effort for Dino. Likes what coulda be better then the December 15, 1974 vid ver-si-on of our King of Cool croonin' "Marshmallow World" on a Bob Hope Christmas special?
None to our Dino-notion! Here we find our most beloved Dino outfitted in his extremely elegant tux with Kent smoke in hand, sittin' on his green velvet throne, surrounded by all the seasonal trimmin's includin' delightfully decorated Christmas tree inside and swank snowman on the outside.

In 1974, at age 57, we believe our Dino was at the absolutely awesome zenith of his coolest of cool career. Dino was cooler, hipper, and randier then ever. Always wantin' to put the accent on the youthful action of the day, Dino had surrounded himself with youthful ladies and gents....currently married to twenty something Miss Cathy Hawn, who he met while clubbin' at the coolest of cool Candy Store Discotheque. When he wasn't wearin' the tux, he was often found sportin' the modest of mod fashions....on the golf course, in segments of his variety show, and as swank swinger extraordinare, makin' the nightlife scene wherever the action was.

We think our Dino croonin' 'bout marshmallows is where it is at dudes, and it is our proud privilege to share the twenty six---count 'em---twenty six gifs of our one and only Dino's sensational seasonal song, "Marshmallow World." First, the original vid, and our Dino-gift of gifs follows. Likes we hopes it brings you as much pure pleasure as it has brought us in creatin' it! Likes, be a love, and sends us some patter 'bout what youse think! Dino-always, ever, and only, DMP

Monday, December 21, 2015

Hey pallies, likes it's December 21, just four short days before we reverently remember the 20th anniversary of our most beloved Dino's passin' from our presence on December 25, 1995. Likes don't knows 'bout you dudes, buts we misses our Dino more and more with each day that passes, and likes not only for his talent...which is incomparable to any and all other entertainers, but for his guidance and direction 'specially in a world that is ever more in sadness and despair and fear.

Today, we are most pleased to share with you an excellent essay by a guy tagged Bob at his self-titled blog, "BRAINSTEMBOB'S GUIDE TO BETTER LIVING - Notes From the Suburban Underground." Not surprisin' to all us Dino-holics, Bob knows the tremendous truth that indeed our Dino is the swankest of swank source for better livin'! His potent prose tagged "Friday Song: ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ by Dean Martin," speaks of all the various voices 'round us speakin' fear into our lives....even when it comes to "WINTER STORM WATCHES."

Warmly 'n wisely Bob declares our Dino to be an awesome antidote to all the fear fallin' 'round us. As Bob sez, "I’m going to follow Dean’s lead. Watch the snow fall. Light up the fire. Mix up a cocktail or two. Put some Dino on the hi-fi. And not be afraid of everything all the time." Thanks goodness, even though our Dino has long 'go physically departed from our presence, his presence is more powerfully with us then even before courtesy of all sorts of tremendous technology.....still guidin' and directin' us.

We thank Mr. Bob for is touchin' and tender thoughts, pointin' his readership in the direction of our Dino, encouragin' all of us to follow our Dino's lead. To checks this out in it's original source, simply clicks on the tag of this here Dino-message. Dino-guided, DMP

Friday Song: ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ by Dean Martin

Well, well, well…Every year, the first significant snowfall of the year is bearing down on us here in Michigan, and with it the non-stop warnings to be prepared for the end of the world. We’re predicted to get a few inches of snow, which means in reality we might see two, but that’s not stopping the media from issuing one WINTER STORM WATCH warning after another. Every year, it’s headline news. And every year, it drives me kind of crazy.

I guess we need to add ‘a little bit of snow’ to the ever-growing list of things that our politicians and our news media want us, no need us, to be afraid, very afraid of. The politicians need us quivering with fear to keep their jobs. It’s as simple as that. They need the fear, because a freaked-out populace is quick to get behind even the worst of ideas. The media would like us to be afraid, and stay afraid, because scared people stay glued to the TV (and even worse, the internet) to stay up-to-date with the very latest thing we need to be afraid of. And all those eyeballs are money in the bank to the media, who sell our fear to advertisers. You know, their real customers.

I get tired of all the fear-mongering. It ramps up around this time of year, with the fake ‘War on Christmas’ (taken to new heights of absurdity this year with the ridiculous fight with Starbucks over their non-Christmasy red coffee cups) and the fear of snowfall, and the fear of everything else.

Last weeks’ horrifying terrorist attacks in Paris have led our leaders to immediately start trying to pass new laws to keep the Syrian refugees out of the country for fear there may be terrorists amongst them. These refugees are fleeing from horrifying conditions, but sorry folks, you’re on your own. Even though all of the identified Paris terrorists were European citizens with EU passports. 100% European nationals, 0% Syrian refugees. But, by all means, let’s refuse these poor people any refuge. It’s almost as idiotic as going to war with Iraq in 2001 because a group of Saudi nationals attacked the U.S. These terrible events simply act as opportunities for politicians to drive through their agendas that would be seen as despicable under normal conditions. We’re much more malleable as a nation when we’re scared…

…Which gets me back to the fact that it’s supposed to snow a little and the Powers That Profit From It want us to be afraid of it. But, what does this have to do with my Friday Song? Well, it comes down to this. I’m not scared. Not even a little bit. I’m not afraid of Starbucks cups, I’m not afraid of Syrian refugees, and I’m definitely not afraid of snow. I’m in Michigan, it’s mid-to-late November…Snow is what happens around here. Big deal. I’m looking forward to it.

I’m looking forward to it because it gives me the opportunity to listen to some Dean and some Bing and more without the rest of the family giving me strange looks.

This song obviously isn’t an obscurity; ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside‘ is one of the great Winter/Christmastime songs of all times. There’s tons of great versions by so many artists, but this one by Dean Martin is the best. In my opinion. Written by Frank Loessner in 1944, and recorded by Martin in 1959 for his 1959 album ‘A Winter Romance.’ I pick the Friday Song based on how I’m feeling, what kind of mood I’m in. And today I’m feeling like if it snows tomorrow. I’m going to follow Dean’s lead. Watch the snow fall. Light up the fire. Mix up a cocktail or two. Put some Dino on the hi-fi. And not be afraid of everything all the time.

Hey pallies, likes today on this twenty-first day of Dino-winter month, we are totally totally thrilled to offer 'nother pre Dino-winter-day treat from our pallie of pallies our Dino-bro Scotty over at his boun-ti-ful blog "BlueisKewl." Regular readers will remember that earlier in our Dino-wintery season our deeply devoted to Dino pallie Scotty-o offered us a purely powerful pose of our most beloved Dino and his co-star Miss Corinne Calvet on the set of the first Martin and Lewis big screen effort, "My Friend Irma," which you can find HERE.

Likes, well if that ain't cool 'nough, Scotty most recently shared an even more purely potent pix of our Dino and Miss Calvet on the set of the sequel tagged "My Friend Irma Goes West." It is perhaps the most powerfully provocative pose of our Dino that we have ever had the pleasure of viewin.....and it is extremely evocative seein' Miss Calvet layin' her hands on our Dino's chest in such a lovin' way. And, likes 'gain it's a swank shot that we knows that we have never ever laid our eyes on before!

In this season of sweet treats, our Scotty-o has certainly outdone himself with the minin' of the coolest, hippest and randy Dino-treasure 'round. We shouts our our awesome appreciato for his extremely energetic efforts in the 'cause of our one and only Dino!!!!! Likes, to checks this out at Scotty's site, simply clicks on the tag of this here Dino-gram. Dino-delightedly, DMP

Dean Martin and Corinne Calvet on the set of the Movie 'My Friend Irma Goes West' 1950

My Friend Irma Goes West is a 1950 film based on the radio show My Friend Irma and featuring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis (Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis). This sequel to My Friend Irma (1949) was released May 31, 1950 by Paramount Pictures.

My Friend Irma Goes West was filmed from January 31 through March 18, 1950. Although At War with the Army was made before this film it was not released until December 1950, making My Friend Irma Goes West the second Martin and Lewis film released.

Sunday, December 20, 2015

Happy Birthday to me...Happy Birthday to me...la lala lalala...Happy Birthday to me.
Oh! Hey pallies!
Was I thinkin' out loud 'gain?! Hahaha!!!
Yes...it's true...today is the 46th year to the day...thats I dropped by this SWINGIN' pad of a world, in which we all groove.
Been doin' my BESTEST to spread the Dino-message ever since, mi amici! Ha!

This was an easy one, pallies.
I LOVE this jam!
I'm sure we ALL love this jam!
It screams Dino-Winter Month!
Many have attempted to capture Dean's cool cool essence with there own renditions...ALL have failed.
In my humble opinion...no one should even try! Haha!!
This FUN FUN wintery tune belongs to one man...& one man alone...Dino.

"Baby, It's Cold Outside" isn't EXACTLY accurate for this unseasonally warm December we been blessed with, pals...but...I thinks today might actually be in the 30's!
That's cold! Ha! Close 'nough!
Whateva' it takes to get my jam jammin'!

OK. let's roll up to a nice toasty warm fireplace...SPIKED hot chocolate in hand...& get on with the Swoonin'!

"Put some records on while I pour!" Dino's records, of course!
Enjoy pallies!

(My mother will start to worry) Beautiful, what's your hurry
(My father will be pacing the floor) Listen to the fireplace roar
(So really I'd better scurry) Beautiful, please don't hurry
(Well, maybe just half a drink more) Put some records on while I pour

(The neighbors might think) Baby, it's bad out there
(Say what's in this drink) No cabs to be had out there
(I wish I knew how) Your eyes are like starlight now
(To break this spell) I'll take your hat, your hair looks swell

(I simply must go) Baby, it's cold outside
(The answer is no) Baby, it's cold outside
(The welcome has been) How lucky that you dropped in
(So nice and warm) Look out the window at the storm

(My sister will be suspicious) Gosh your lips look delicious
(My brother will be there at the door) Waves upon a tropical shore
(My maiden aunt's mind is vicious) Gosh your lips are delicious
(But maybe just a cigarette more) Never such a blizzard before

(I got to get home) But, baby, you'd freeze out there
(Say lend me a coat) It's up to your knees out there
(You've really been grand) I thrill when you touch my hand
(But don't you see) How can you do this thing to me

(There's bound to be talk tomorrow) Think of my life long sorrow
(At least there will be plenty implied) If you caught pneumonia and died
(I really can't stay) Get over that old doubt[Both] Baby, it's cold[Both] Baby, it's cold outside

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Hey pallies likes it has become an annual Dino-tradition here at ilovedinomartin for the postin' of our own Dino-devoted pallie Danny G.'s classic Dino-poetry parody, "The Night Before Christmas...Dino-style." Likes first shared here at our humble little Dino-home in 2010, it is our purest of pure Dino-delight to share it 'gain this year on this nineteenth day of Dino-winter-month( just one day before our Danny-o's birthday!) to likes puts us all us Dino-holics into the coolest of cool Dino-seasonal mood!

Likes week-in, week-out our wholely Dino-hearted pallie Danny G. continues to crank out his fab-u-lous column, "Danny G.'s Sunday Serenade With Dino" for all us dudes' Dino-pleasure while he also serves as a faithful Dino-example to his wee boy and girl pallies Nicky and Stel. And, this Dino-seasonal prose gives testimony that Danny-o is truly truly an up-and-comin' proser of hip, cool, and ever randy Dino-parodies as well!

We knows that likes you will 'gain grooves on Danny G's retellin' of our most beloved Dino and his pack of pallies waitin' their visit from the jolly ol' man in red himself. We wisely wishes that our pallie Danny-o woulda be able to scribe more and more awesome Dino-reflections for the the Dino-edification of our waitin' readership. Thanks once 'gain Danny-o for your awesome Dino-funnin' and for the many and varied ways you continue to lift up the name of our Dino here at ilovedinomartin. Dino-always, ever, and only, DMP

Twas the night before Christmas
at the Dean Martin pad
chicks and pallies were groovin'
the music was rad.

Martinis were pourin'
shaken not stirred
Dino's "White Christmas'
was all that was heard.

The stockings were stuffed
with vodka and gin
Ol' blue eyes and Sammy
just stumbled in.

The boys in their tuxes
broads wrapped in their minks
Sir Dino was mixin'
some holiday drinks.

Then up on the roof
they heard a hell of a smash
Sammy yelled out
"Hey man, Santa just crashed!"

Frank invited him in
for a drink and a smoke
Santa said "Sure!
I'll take a rum and a coke!"

A bundle of booze
he had on his back
the tag on the bag
said "For the Rat Pack"

Dean gave Jeannie her gift
"To the one I love most"
"It's just what I wanted,
The Dean Martin Roasts!"

Dino caught Santa's eye
and gave him a wink
straightened his bow tie
and finished his drink.

The party still swingin'
Dino snuck up to bed
while visions of showgirls
danced in his head.

As St. Nick jumped in his sleigh
and rose to the heavens
They all gathered round'
to watch "Ocean's Eleven".

But they heard him exclaim
as he flew through the sky
"Merry Christmas Dino Crocetti,
your my kinda guy!!!"

Friday, December 18, 2015

Hey pallies, likes one of the smoothest of smooth Dino-wintery croons is "A Marshmallow World" and our personal fav Dino-ver-si-on is the one from the December 15, 1974, The Bob Hope Show. Likes last Dino-winter-month while searchin' through previous years of Dino-winter-month posts we musta been totally totally Dino-directed to find our greatest of great Dino-proser, Ed's December 2, 2009 greatest of great review of "It's A Marshmallow World."

Likes we shared it when we found it last year and we just knows that it is only fittin' to make this a yearly Dino-traditoin so once 'gain we share Ed's wisest of wise Dino-prose for all youse Dino-holics Dino-delight on this eighteenth day of Dino-winter-month.

Likes we continue to stand in absolute awe of the way that when Ed writes Dino he does so in the most potently powerful and passionately poetic Dino-way possible...and this review is proof positive of it dudes! We are absolutely thrilled to be able to share it 'gain for all youse Dino-philes to bask in all the Dino-glory of Ed's gloriously golden review....includin' both the Dino and Frank Sinatra ver-si-on recently shared here by our own Danny-o) as well as our fav of fav from the Bob Hope special.

Likes we don't hear much from our Dino-devoted pallie Ed these days, but we hope somehow, someway that you will know our deepest of deep Dino-appreciato for your magnificant way of homagin' our Dino in the hugest of huge ways! Dino-always, ever, and only, DMP

It’s a "Marshmallow World" in the winter! The official voice of the season is a familiar one pallies. Breezes of Dino stirring the chilly holiday air has become an encouraging trend in our Dino-verse. Dino doin’ carols, fires doin’ chestnuts, snowflakes doin’ noses, it’s all one big collective snowball of yule tide!

Marshmallow clouds being friendly? Sun is red like a pumpkin head? Spring the tree, throw the lights, Dino has proclaimed the OH-ficial start of the season! The nog-of-egg filleth my cup as the voice-of-Dino filleth my spirits! Visions of sugar plums, and echoes of Dino dance in your head. As self-proclaimed Mayor of Dino-ville, I declare, officially, that Dino is The Voice of the Season!

Scoot over Der-Bingle, Dino’s oldie but a goodie “Marshmallow World” is the “White Christmas” of the 21st century! Very similar to the late blooming “Ain’t That a Kick in The Head”, “Marshmallow World” is experiencing a late growth spurt. Wasn’t long ago where if you didn’t own the LP, you didn’t hear this gem. And that’s a shame! The now familiar tune, recorded June 30th 1966 for Reprise Records, and released on the Dean Martin Christmas Album on October 11, 1966, wasn’t re-released into present day media until after 1998.

December 21, 1967. The Dean Martin Show. Woo woo! Dino's having a blast. Ole Blue Eyes quips a ‘punkin head’. Dino-Cool and The Voice radiating audio warmth to the masses. Tuxes, and cigarettes singing snowballs and sugar dates. Crazy-daddy! Pick your pleasure, LP version of "MW", Dino 'n Frank version , or the Bob Hope special version. Like art, you can't explain it, but you know it when you see it. Pure Dino.

The Dean Martin Show

December 15, 1974, The Bob Hope Show. The King Of Cool eases into his green throne to endorse this holiday seasons version of "MW". It's a good one too. Dino in rare Christmas-Cool form. The tree adorned, the fireplace aglow, and Dino broadcasting to his Dino-zens the "State of the Season" address. Dino nails this version. The amber glow of his smoke, the casual step in his stroll. The next two minutes and thirty five seconds, all is good in the world. Your worries and woes are scramsville. Dino once again has pronounced the season full of sweethearts and snowballs. We are reminded what the season is all about.

The Bob Hope Special

Preferred listening suggestion:
Anywhere, anytime. Adorning the tree, or driving in your car. It's an audio candy cane pally. Ideally, for yours truly, this cut is perfect for a cozy winters night with that someone special. Perhaps an egg-nog or favorite vino. Make due with what you have, Dino will make up for everything you're short of. After all, you are now in his world.
Enjoy, and good night.

Marshmallow World
Written by Sigman & De Rose
Produced by Jimmy Bowen
Arranged and Conducted by Ernie Freeman

It's a marshmallow world in the winter
When the snow comes to cover the ground
It's the time for play, it's a whipped cream day
I wait for it the whole year round.

Those are marshmallow clouds being friendly
In the arms of the evergreen trees
And the sun is red like a pumpkin head
It's shining so your nose wont freeze.

The world is your snowball, see how it grows
Thats how it goes whenever it snows
The world is your snowball just for a song
Get out and roll it along

It's a yum-yummy world made for sweethearts
Take a walk with your favorite girl
It's a sugar date, what if spring is late
In winter it's a marshmallow world.